"Still Life with Artichokes, Flowers and Glass Vessels" Fan

Polished pear wood. 27 cm (stick). Made in Spain.

This fan, a traditional, effective and sustainable remedy to mitigate the summer heat, reproduces a detail of Still Life with Artichokes, Flowers and Glass Vessels (1627) by Juan Van der Hamen y León, where the beauty of the flowers is enhanced by the presence of the more commonplace green vegetable below them, and the senses of sight and smell are pitted against the sense of taste.